Shift - Upgrading from Laravel 5.4 to Laravel 9.x (Part 1)

[@david-patton]

anything like shift that is free?

[@thejasonmccreary]

Not for upgrading.

[@debashischowdhury3990]

Hi, In this video, I can see you first tried to run 'composer update'. And then you are checking the library compatibility in 'laravelsfift' and then you are upgrading the version from lower to the immediate higher version. But, in my laravel 5.4 project, the used library files compatible with laravel 9 (although version needs to upgraded of those as well). So, in my case how to upgrade the laravel version from 5.4 to 9? Please suggest me as I am a beginner in laravel and I also got an existing project that need to be upgraded (has no test files within the folder).

[@thejasonmccreary]

If you feel the packages are all compatible, then you can upgrade manually or using Shift as I demo in this video. Starting with the Laravel 6.x Shift, versions for common packages will automatically be bumped.

[@debashischowdhury3990]

@@thejasonmccreary can't I just upgrade to version 9 in single step instead of first upgrading to version 6, then 7, 8, 9?

[@thejasonmccreary]

@@debashischowdhury3990 Shift is incremental to improve clarity and focus. For a small app, you might be able to copy your files over in to a fresh app to manually upgrade in "one step". But I feel that isn't very thorough and rarely saves time.